Remember the olden days when you had to settle for the occasional porn star sighting on cheesy reality shows or MTV or cheesy MTV reality shows? Suddenly, HGTV is more than just about flipping houses and designing on dimes: first we hear that one of its former hosts is starting his own naked goth girl site, and now our intrepid colleagues at Gay Porn Blog have revealed that current "Design Star" contestant and Le Corbusier fan Michael Verdugo received some valuable hardware and still life training appearing as "Jeremy Wess" in movies like "Rope Rituals" for legendary bondage producer Tom "Ropes" McGurk.

Sex Blog Roundup: Summer Lovers Redux

Now that those diplomas have been granted and the beaches are open, it's time to move to the next item on the June calendar: lining up that perfect lover for the summer. Maybe he's been around for a while and now you're aching to get him shirtless outdoors? Or maybe the ex is looking good now that you've split with the winter beau? For some, it's never enough so long as there are more lovers to be had, while others prefer devoting their attention to that special someone ... even if keeping her leashed in the park attracts the local law enforcement. Oh, those summer nights! (Sorry, same director, different movie.)

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As we've been fond of complaining about a lot this week, it seems like hardly a day has passed lately without the clouds releasing a downpour of steamy summer rain. While some might be bothered about the weather messing up everyone's plans for outdoor activities, however, other folks know how to make the best of wet situations—like the bloggers in today's roundup of some of our favorite moments from the sex blog scene. They use the sounds of stormy weather to stifle their sex moans, and allow all that electricity in the air to jumpstart their own shocking activities. Watch as they strip out of their soaked clothes and get down to business with strap-ons, ball gags and other fun rainy-day implements. Who needs an umbrella anyway?

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Madison Young's about to get married to Selina Raven, and she couldn't be happier. But there's just one little problem: she's having a little bit of trouble with that whole monogamy thing, especially when Ariel X is in the picture (a dilemma we can definitely understand). Lucky for us, Madison's little indiscretions are pretty darn hot to watch: during a wild bachelorette party lap dance and a church pew make out session after the rehearsal dinner, Madison and Ariel leave no stone unturned, with foot worship, rope bondage, strap on sex, and anal play all on the menu.

Read more about Blowfish Video's new "Bride Of Sin" after the jump.

We used to get in trouble a lot when we were growing up for what our teachers referred to as our "attitude", though we never exactly understood what that was supposed to mean. And now that we've had a chance to examine the portfolio of the Buckinghamshire (UK)-based erotic photographer who simply goes by the name of Mark, we're more confused than ever: after all, we don't recall running around school topless in full clown makeup or with studded codpieces on our face, and we definitely would have remembered showing up for class with gas masks on or with giant clothespins clamped to our nipples. Somehow, though, Mark's very sexy alt-style models make naughty things like that look almost innocent—and a hell of a lot of fun. If that's what attitude is all about, we totally should've tried to misbehave more.

· Photos With Attitude (photoswithattitude.net, via fluffylychees.blogspot.com)

An excellent digest of photorealistic fetish illustration and take-many-prisoners text, the fledgling "Taboo Illustrated" is both a millennial pulp comic and a monthly kink lifestyle primer. Published by Hustler and edited by "O: The Power of Submission" director Ernest Greene, "Taboo Illustrated" features fantasy/fetish artwork and text by Gary Roberts, Ferres, Templeton, and Greene as well as serialized graphic novels. If Betty and Veronica were pony girls, Los Bros Hernandez documented prison hookers, and the Dark Knight ran a dungeon, "Taboo Illustrated" is what it would look like.

· Gary Roberts Art/Taboo (garyrobertsart.com)

It's bonus time in today's roundup of some of our favorite moments from the sex blog scene! But the deals these writers are making don't involve cash back at the end of their billing cycle or free gift bags included with every purchase—instead, there are all sorts of sexy extras that accompany even the most mundane of transactions. Read along as these savvy shoppers reel in the premiums, what with their extra value-added blowjobs and sex-toy reviews and midnight fuckings. And when they get tired of the standard fare on the shelves, they find ways to reach for bigger orgasms, look for fancier places to get dirty, and ready themselves for more extremes of experience.

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Sexploitation Clip Of The Week: "The Twisted Sex"

Such thoughts Larry (we'll call him Larry) has while strapped to his bondage chair. In fact, let's call them Bondage Thoughts. While this movie is not going to win any awards for Cheerfulness, the "Ring"-style editing and gloomy industrial settings will be a hit with the BDSM crowd and the exquisitely tethered bodies herein are beautiful canvases no matter what is being done to them.

We've heard rumors that if you mind your manners, make your bed every morning, and remember always to wash behind your ears, good things will happen when you're all grown up ... like you'll be able to serve as someone's very own slave girl! The bloggers in today's roundup of some of the best sex writing on the web must have been especially good because they get to live in blissful servitude to their masters and mistresses: they get zinged by electric pads, have the crankies spanked right out of them, and serve dinner guests in a most unusual way. We should all be so lucky.

Watch your Ps and Qs with AlwaysArousedGirl after the jump.

We've had the hots for Ariel X for quite some time now, so when we heard she was passing through Fleshbot West and leaving her customary trail of broken hearts and handprints on asses in her wake we begged for a chance to ask her a few questions. Turns out, you have to beg really nice-like when you're talking to Ariel, and our knees are pretty bruised as a result. But finding out that her fantasy is being abducted and fucked by 5-10 girls was well worth the obedience lesson ... especially since that is so totally our fantasy too! Weird!

Read our exclusive interview and check out our deliriously hardcore gallery featuring a taste of Ariel's adventures after the jump.

All across the country in early May, mushroom enthusiasts take to the woods in search of one of the most profoundly savory delicacies imaginable, the morel. It's a mushroom that inspires a degree of lust usually reserved for all things sexual, and some of us might consider giving up sex (for a few days, anyhow) for even a taste of a fresh one. Today's roundup of some of our favorite moments from the sex blog scene features a very different kind of mycophiliac, though: these intrepid foragers track down their favorite mushroom-headed treats so they can use them in all kinds of other fun ways. And if they can't find a partner who's willing to share, they just grow their own.

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Yes, we know what you're thinking: "Ho-hum, another Fleshbot post featuring some tasteful, tepid European art nude and/or 'glamour' photographer. What happened to all that freaky Japanese stuff you used to talk about?" (Do we know you like a book or what?) Well before you get all antsy and click over to the next post, take some time to browse through photographer Nicola Serra's small but choice portfolio of erotic delights. Unlike some erotic photographers who are all boobs all the time, Serra seems to have a particular penchant for taking pictures of beautiful buttocks as well, and his portraits are suffused with a delicious erotic tension whether his models are wearing silly animal masks or bound with duct tape. Even his blog of recent work scrolls vertically horizontally instead of up and down like every other photography blog we've seen. See? We told you he was different!

· Nicola Serra Photographer (nicolaserra.com, via Indie Nudes)